Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-26
SHOT IN THE E c
A Piano Player Seriously Wounded by
aLiuuOr Dealer.

About IL O'Clock yesterday forenoon q
shooting affray occurred in Gilroy's saloon,
in Masonic Temple block, on West Park
street, between B. j. Schlesinger and Harry
Elves. The former is a wholesale liquor
dealer and has an office in the rear end of
the saloon. ELVES is employed in the
Arion variety theater in the capacity of
piano player, and is in the habit of drop
ping in at Gilroy's daily. Yesterday, as
usual, he paid that place a visit, arriving
there an hour Or SO before the difficulty.
He and Schlesinger had always been on
friendly terms, and shook dice and drank
together. Yesterday mornings meeting
was Of the same friendly nature until q
discussion arose as to tho advisability OF
closing the variety theaters, Schlesinger
maintaining that they should be
closed, as they we're the cause OF
the ruin Of many young men,
and cited as an example that of his own
son, who, it is stated, he claimed was led
astray at the Arion. ELVES, it is stated,
replied that the proprietors of the Arion
had done more toward reforming young
Schlesinger-having put him out of that
resort a great many times-than had he
This father), who had never gone to the
place and taken his son away, when he
was aware OF his presence there. This re-
tort seemed to anger Schlesinger, and hot
words followed. One report is that ELVES
pulled a pistol and threw it on the floor,
saying he wanted no gun fight, and that
Schlesinger then went back to his office, got
a pistol and returned; when, renewing the
quarrel, he fired the shot that wounded
Elves. Another report is that Elves pulled
a pistol. but Schlesipger grabbing the pistol
hov, ri E1uvn ~r1loI HE 0,vn ryNn~~-
and fired the shot. Still another report is
that Schlesinger pulled his pistol and
showed it's muzzle in Elves face, and as he
fired the latter threw his head to one side,
thus avoiding a fatal shot. Elves then
pulling his pistol, and throwing it on the
floor, saying, You may as well finish the
business" They were standing between the
end OF the bar and adoer that leads to
a closet under the hall stairway. The ball
entered Elves neck in front, to the right OF
the lugular vein. passing round and coming
near the spine and shoulder blade, and
was found imbedded in the wall near the
loon, and meeting Marshal Jolly on the
street, told him he had been shot by
Schlesinger, then proceeded to a Main
street saloon and tool a drink, then to his
room in the second story of the Houser
building, on East Park street. On arriv-
ing there he was so weak from loss of blood
he was unable to open his room door.
arriving, he was placed in bed,
and Pr. Bacon called in. The wound was
dressed, and the patient was resting easy
at two O'Clock. Later in the evening he
had several f%ainting fits, but at midnight
sleeping quietly.
ELVES came to Butte three years ago i
the Puget Sound country, and has
been employed in the Arion since the first
OF that resort. He is well spoken
Of among his associates, as being liberal
with his money and quietly disposed.
Schlesinger was arrested and placed under
of $4,000, and will have his preIimi-
nary examination on Saturday before
Judge Mediation.